Kenworth and Peterbilt recall medium-duty trucks over mirror glass seating

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Kenworth and Peterbilt are recalling 11,053 medium-duty trucks because improperly seated glass on...

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Trailer side-guard rule likely delayed until at least October 2024

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WASHINGTON — A proposed rule to mandate equipment aimed at preventing deaths in collisions between...

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New data shows 14% decline in large-truck fatalities

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WASHINGTON — New preliminary data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shows a...

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OOIDA calls long delay in truck broker rate transparency rule ‘BS’

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WASHINGTON — After years of waiting and prodding from small-business truckers, federal regulators...

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Crash victims allege DOT violations related to underride guard report

WASHINGTON — Truck safety advocates want the Biden administration to investigate whether regulators violated ethics rules and federal law in conducting cost-benefit assessments of crash protection equipment for truck trailers.

In a letter sent Thursday to U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Eric Soskin requesting the investigation, the Truck Safety Coalition, along with a group of truck crash victim advocates and victim family members, alleged potential misconduct by DOT...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/crash-victims-allege-dot-violations-related-to-underride-guard-report

Truck driver jobs at center of House hearing on automation

WASHINGTON — Losing jobs to technology is a big concern across many industries, and the issue was in the spotlight on Capitol Hill on Wednesday at a hearing on the future of autonomous trucking.

Speaking on behalf of the industry’s largest companies, the American Trucking Associations’ Chris Spear attempted to quell those fears by asserting that automation is needed to bring more drivers into the industry — not push them out.

“If we didn’t have a shortage [of drivers], we would be having a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-driver-jobs-at-center-of-house-hearing-on-automation

Mack files Granite recall after regulators nix ‘inconsequential’ plea

Mack Trucks is recalling 27,418 heavy-duty Granite trucks over nine model years because the turn signal angle is out of compliance with a Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS).

The Volvo Group North America subsidiary unsuccessfully petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to consider the issue inconsequential to safety.

“Mack Trucks did not provide any data, views, or arguments supporting its belief that this noncompliance is inconsequential to safety” according to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mack-files-granite-recall-after-regulators-nix-inconsequential-plea

AARP pushes feds to protect older pedestrians from truck accidents

WASHINGTON — The country’s largest advocacy group for people over 50 wants federal regulators to do more to protect pedestrians from getting hit by trucks.

AARP — formerly the American Association of Retired Persons — is pushing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to require pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB) in heavy-duty trucks.

Like AEB, PAEB relies on forward-looking detection sensors to assist drivers by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aarp-pushes-feds-to-protect-older-pedestrians-from-truck-accidents

NHTSA denies Mack Trucks’ turn-signal lamp exemption

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are taking aim at rule-exemption requests in the trucking sector that fail to provide the safety justifications required by law.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday denied such a request by Mack Trucks that involved 27,544 of the company’s Class 8 Granite work truck models built between 2014 and 2022 (for model years 2015-2023) that did not comply with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) for turn-signal lamps. Approving the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nhtsa-denies-mack-trucks-turn-signal-lamp-exemption

Running on empty? Hino recalls trucks for inaccurate fuel readings

The U.S. arm of Japan’s Hino Motors Ltd. is recalling 8,025 trucks because a deformed fuel sender float connecting rod sends false readings about how much fuel is in the tank.

Hino reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that 100% of 11 models — 2020-2024 Hino NE7A, NE7B, NE8A, NH9A, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ8A, NJ8J, NV7A, NV7B and NV8A — manufactured between March 10, 2020, and July 28, 2023, are potentially affected.

Inaccurate fuel indication may lead to an engine stall due to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/running-on-empty-hino-recalls-trucks-for-inaccurate-fuel-readings

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